Saxophones Pork Tales: Saxophone Repair DIY Adventures.

Life around the barn.

Tales from a pig that likes to stick his nose into everything.

Paint that S. How difficult could it be ?

1) Search the net.
2) Find the color.
3) Order color.
4) Study task on University of YouTube, aka; For destruction by DYI presented by pro tech.

Do the cleaning & prep.

Paint and cleanup / detail the edges with hard cotton swabs. Sounds easy……

Yeah tha guy Matt makes it look easy.
Anyone remember your first experience cooking bacon crispy while still in the frying pan !

 

[Colin the Bear]

That'll buff out. 🤗

 

[PigSquealer]

The rod is completely rusted solid inside the part. Probably from the flux attacking the steel.
Time to machine the iron chunk out of the brass.
Rod is .103
Bit is .095
The plan is to reduce and press out.

Here’s my press.

 

[PigSquealer]

With the anvil center & locked. A well fitting drive was used to gently knock the part out. Well as much as possible.
The press is actually for watch repair. Rarely are the parts more than 1mm thick. I only went in until the taper made contact.

 

[Vlad]

Nice bit of kit that..looks a bit like a posh coffee machine though 🙂

 

[PigSquealer]

Partway through I broke off my small bit. Had to start over from other side. Once I hit the broken off stuck cutter, I removed the cutting bit. Then used a old headless bit to press it out. I probably ruined the alignment in doing so. Likely the cause of the window.

 

[Tenor Viol]

I thought it might be a watch-maker's piece of kit - one of the hobbies I've avoided so far is watch repair.... but I've been tempted for quite a while.... there are courses.... Might make more sense to do a basic sax tech course though.

 

[Vlad]

I thought it might be a watch-maker's piece of kit - one of the hobbies I've avoided so far is watch repair.... but I've been tempted for quite a while.... there are courses.... Might make more sense to do a basic sax tech course though.

I had a spate of messing with old pocket watches, I managed to get a few running, but with old bloke diminishing eyesight ( despite magnifying equipment) I was finding it not so much fun, the obvious transition though was to old clocks, these are great as all the bits are manageable size and there's lots of nice old 'non running' clocks around that can be acquired very cheaply and brought back to life.
a clock mech is essentially a basic 'gearbox' and everything is fairly accessible.

 

[PigSquealer]

I thought it might be a watch-maker's piece of kit - one of the hobbies I've avoided so far is watch repair.... but I've been tempted for quite a while.... there are courses.... Might make more sense to do a basic sax tech course though.

I do watch repair (self taught also) for 28 years now. Most of the tools to make parts I sold off years ago. The kit is basic tool for replacing pivots in gear train.

 

[PigSquealer]

I had a spate of messing with old pocket watches, I managed to get a few running, but with old bloke diminishing eyesight ( despite magnifying equipment) I was finding it not so much fun, the obvious transition though was to old clocks, these are great as all the bits are manageable size and there's lots of nice old 'non running' clocks around that can be acquired very cheaply and brought back to life.
a clock mech is essentially a basic 'gearbox' and everything is fairly accessible.

Clocks are fun until you have a roomful and none chime at the same moment. Then the CooKoo goes

 

[PigSquealer]

The fix is this.
A well fitting hinge rod from spares and a sleeve from stock.

The hole sized to fit sleeve.

Needs a little alignment work.

Where the part cracked. No adjustment was needed to fit the sleeve.

 

[PigSquealer]

Production repair. “ make it playable “. Yeah is see the imperfections. The repair is solid.

 

[PigSquealer]

Grrr ! That fissure is bugging me….”play condition with minimal work”. Was the customer request, but still

 

[PigSquealer]

Oh, the sax is this nice little alto.

It also arrived with another minor issue.

 

[Ghr9204]

Looks like a little sweat soldering work is in order on the neck, plus maintaining good alignment for the octave key pad. What sax is that?

On the sax prior to your latest just now, that was quite a bit of work to fuse the broken pieces back together in perfect alignment. The repair was cleanly done and in an area of high stress. Seems the original design left something to be desired. But you pulled it off very nicely.

 

[Woodpad]

Is that a brass roller on the body octave pip? Three octave pads Hammerschmidt?

 

[Pete Effamy]

You know, when I was a little boy I thought they were saying

"Liar, liar, pacifier!"

But I still think the line in "FM" ought to be

"Nothing but booze and Elvis
And somebody else's
Favorite song..."

Yep, good one. One of my favourite songs. Killer production, and terrific arrangement. Love where / when the strings appear...

 

[PigSquealer]

Is that a brass roller on the body octave pip? Three octave pads Hammerschmidt?

Yes.
Two octave key pads. Body & neck 1ea.
Has traits of F.X. Hüller / Hammerchmidt. Dates to 1941-45. No orgin markings. Plays & sounds like a Martin.

 

[thomsax]

Yes.
Two octave key pads. Body & neck 1ea.
Has traits of F.X. Hüller / Hammerchmidt. Dates to 1941-45. No orgin markings. Plays & sounds like a Martin.

Is the serial number four digits? I've seen Hammerschmidt (Burgau) , Keilwerth (Nauheim), Hohner (Trossingen) and Kohlert (Winneden) with solder-on tone holes w or wo bevelded tonehole rims. Close to Martin saxes ..... . I don't understand how Martin could built student saxes with this design after WWII with a profit?

 

[Vlad]

The 'indented' key cups are an interesting design, not seen those before..

 

[rhysonsax]

The key cups are distinctive and I think it is an Olds Super, just like I have as alto and tenor.

Rhys